Bernadette O'Rawe Author

Richard O'Rawe was born in Belfast. His first book, Blanketmen, published in 2005, was a political book about the 1981 IRA/INLA hunger strike and was an Irish bestseller. His second book, Afterlives, was published in 2010. His third book, In the Name of the Son, a biography of his lifelong friend Gerry Conlon (of the Guildford Four), was published in 2017. The first two novels in his Ructions O'Hare series, Northern Heist and Goering's Gold, were published in 2018 and 2022 respectively. He is currently working on his third novel in this series. His sixth book, Stakeknife's Dirty War, another bestseller, was published in 2023.

Witch Hunt is his first collaboration with his daughter, Bernadette, and the first book in the DSI Grace O'Malley thriller series.

Bernadette O'Rawe is a graduate of Queen's University Belfast, having attained a BA (Hons) in Criminology and Sociology and an LL.M (Master of Laws) in Human Rights and Criminal Justice.